Deformations of symmetric CMC surfaces in the 3-sphere

In this paper we numerically construct CMC deformations of the Lawson minimal surfaces $\xi_{g,1}$ using a spectral curve and a DPW approach to CMC surfaces in spaceforms.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure

Unitarization of monodromy representations and constant mean curvature trinoids in 3-dimensional space forms

We present a theorem on the unitarizability of loop group valued monodromy representations and apply this to show the existence of new families of constant mean curvature surfaces homeomorphic to a thrice-punctured sphere in the simply-connected 3-dimensional space forms $\R^3$, \bbS^3 and \bbH^3. Additionally, we compute the extended frame for any associated family of Delaunay surfaces.Comment: 18 pages, revised versio

Bifurcating extremal domains for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian

We prove the existence of a smooth family of non-compact domains $Omega_s \subset R^{n+1}$ bifurcating from the straight cylinder $B^n \times R$ for which the first eigenfunction of the Laplacian with 0 Dirichlet boundary condition also has constant Neumann data at the boundary. The domains $Omega_s$ are rotationally symmetric and periodic with respect to the R-axis of the cylinder; they are of the form $Omega_s = {(x,t) \in R^n \times R \mid |x| < 1+s \cos((2\pi)/T_s t) + O(s^2)}$ where $T_s = T_0 + O(s)$ and T_0 is a positive real number depending on n. For $n \ge 2$ these domains provide a smooth family of counter-examples to a conjecture of Berestycki, Caffarelli and Nirenberg. We also give rather precise upper and lower bounds for the bifurcation period T_0. This work improves a recent result of the second author.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figure